minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)
gum; rubber; eraser; condom
leather boots; rubber boots; wellingtons; wellies; long boots; high boots
to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear); to wear; to affix (a sword to one's hip); (arch.) to affix (a bowstring to a bow)
appearance; air; mien; getup
birth; birthplace; born in (country, month, imperial era, zodiac year, etc.)
Echigo (former province located in present-day Niigata Prefecture)
Shinshū (alt. name of former Shinano province)
military service; conscription
house for rent; house to let; building a house; built house
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery
to come of age; to become an adult; to become fully qualified; to stand on one's own
(present) head of a family
first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
crossing; passage; importing; import; wandering; wanderer; migration
throne; crown; government position; court rank; social standing; rank; grade (of quality, etc.)
upper reaches of a river; upstream
perception; intuition; the sixth sense
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer
to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family)
to have a reason; to have an excuse
mother's side of family; maternal (grandfather, uncle, etc.)
live-in domestic service; live-in apprenticeship; public duty; public service
property; fortune; means; assets
celebrated personage; big-wig; person in a high position
each; (arch.) you (plural)
turning point; change; transition; (arch.) point of difference
occupation; profession; job; vocation; trade; calling
cotton plant (Gossypium spp.); batting; wadding; padding
to reel; to wind; to turn (pages); to flip through (a book); to count (e.g. the days); to open one-by-one
name of store; trade name (esp. of a sole proprietorship); stage name (e.g. of actor)
double-dealing; double tongue; going back on what one has said; repeating oneself
what; so-and-so; such and such; what?; wait; well, well
measuring container; measure; box (seating at a theatre, etc.); square on a grid; cell of a grid
lineage; stock; descent; strain; blood relationship
heredity; (genetic) inheritance
interest (in something); curiosity (about something); zest (for)